Opportunities and Challenges of Peer-to-Peer Internet Video Broadcast.pdfVIP

Opportunities and Challenges of Peer-to-Peer Internet Video Broadcast ∗ † ‡ § Jiangchuan Liu , Sanjay G. Rao , Bo Li , and Hui Zhang ∗School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Email: jcliu@cs.sfu.ca † School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Email: sanjay@ ‡Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Email: bli@cs.ust.hk §School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Email: hzhang@ Abstract— There have been tremendous efforts and many decades. For much of the 1990’s, the research and industrial technical innovations in supporting real-time video streaming community investigated support for such applications using in the past two decades, but cost-effective large-scale video the IP Multicast architecture [13]. However, serious concerns broadcast has remained an elusive goal. IP multicast represented the earlier attempt to tackle this problem, but failed largely due regarding its scaling, support for higher level functionality, and to concerns regarding